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Winford Manila’s grand welcome for the Year of the Pig

Luxury hotel Winford Manila Resort & Casino (WMRC) ushered in the Lunar New Year on February 5 in grand fashion by hosting a traditional...

Universal Health Care Act assures cover for all—PhilHealth

The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) confirmed recently that all Filipinos would surely receive health care services, without heavy financial burden due to costly...

Judy Ann Santos and her absolute truths

Lucho, almost nine years old, is asking his mother for a baby brother. Yohan, just turned 14, wants a baby girl. “Paano ba ito? Twins?”...

Suffer the little children

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” — Novelist James Baldwin Let’s begin...

Lack of psychologists in gov’t hospitals hampers healing of abused children

(First of two parts) Ella (not her real name) was brought to the child protection unit of the Philippine General Hospital (PGH) after a jeepney...

Children and incarceration: A question of sanity

Does the Filipino child deserve incarceration? The House committee on justice has recently approved a bill that would lower the age of criminal liability from...

Grace: The heir of the last mambabatok

Grace literally discontinued her tattoo sessions yesterday. Though many customers, like us, were waiting. She needed to do something more important—rest and feed the...

South Africa must be good for the soul

South Africa. A place of raw, untamed beauty. Its cities, Johannesburg and Cape Town in particular, rise from the burrowed ground at once splendid and...

Killing Eve: An erotically charged tale of murder, fascination, and obsession

A beautiful young woman, seen in a café eating a serving of what appeared to be gelato, caught a little girl's eye who was...

A Tarot of Philippine history (Part 2)

The Tarot de Marseilles, the oldest deck in 15th century Italy, slipped into the Philippines in the 18th century, most likely in gamblers’ hands....